Pete Alonso’s future with the Mets continues to be in question.
While much of the conversation in the offseason revolved around a contract extension — which never came and never will, at least not this season — now, the discussion turns to trades.
On Tuesday, ESPN’s Buster Olney declared that trading Alonso is a realistic possibility. Mets president of baseball operations, Olney explains, comew from a small market team and is operating in the same way in New York.
“I think that what you’re seeing is someone who was really good at running a small market team with the Brewers, using a lot of those type of moves,” Olney said on “The Michael Kay Show” on ESPN New York. “And trying to plug and fill and trying to find solutions. And it’s why as we go forward, if they don’t improve, then you got to believe that because right now he’s got Steve Cohen’s ear, trading Pete Alonso is going to be on the table at some point, and it would be a huge, it would be a big deal.
The Mets are currently 4-7, fourth in the NL East. This is an improvement from their 1-5 start
But the outlook hasn’t improved for the Amazins. Baseball Prospectus’s PECOTA system has the Mets finishing the season below-500 again at 80-82 and out of the postseason race.
This will play a major factor in what the team does with their 6-foot-3 slugger come the trade deadline. If they’re out of the race, then Olney may be right. Otherwise, Cohen, who believes this is a playoff-caliber team, will look to add, not unload like they did last year.
Trading Alonso would send a drastic message to Mets fans. One very unlike the one Stearns relayed in spring training.
“The vision that Steve (Cohen) laid out at the front end of his ownership tenure is still very much the vision of this organization,” Stearns said in camp “We expect ourselves, and our fan base certainly expect us, to be a championship-caliber organization. That is success for our organization. And that’s the bar that we’re going to measure ourselves against.”
ATLANTA — The Mets exorcised some of their long-standing demons at Truist Park this week.
There were no late-game heroics or dramatics as they righted the ship in a big way with a 16-4 victory over the Braves on Thursday afternoon in front of 34,352 fans.
The Mets pounded out 16 hits, including multi-hit games from six different players, as they grabbed some momentum before heading back home.
“Relentless,” manager Carlos Mendoza said. “This is a team that even though we got off to a homestand that was a struggle for us, the consistency, the preparation, (they) continued to have fun and continued to put pressure (on). It’s still early but it’s important to start winning series, especially against two really good teams.”
The result of Thursday’s offensive onslaught? The unlikeliest matchup as Luis Guillorme threw pitches against his former team in the top of the ninth inning, leading to four more runs on a pinch-hit grand slam by Tyrone Taylor, to pad the Mets’ biggest offensive game of the season.
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